“Large, cultures contemporaines” is a new space dedicated to contemporary art on the
Île Seguin in the Greather Paris area which the public will be able to discover through the inaugural exhibition “Imaginary Engine: From Masterpieces of the Collection Renault to Artists of Today”, presented in collaboration with the Fonds Renault pour l’Art et la Culture from 17 October 2026.

Large, a hybrid art centre dedicated to the French art Scene

The Groupe Emerige and its president, Laurent Dumas, are pleased to announce the opening of Large in autumn 2026 within an exceptional architectural project devised by RCR Arquitectes (Pritzker 2017) in collaboration with the CALQ agency. 

Directed by Paula Aisemberg, Large is situated on the Pointe des Arts, an iconic site on the Île Seguin in the Greater Paris area (France) which will now be open to the public after a century of industrial activity.

For its opening exhibition, Large has entrusted its programme to internationally recognised curator Cecilia Alemani. Entitled “Imaginary Engine: From Masterpieces of the Collection Renault to Artists of Today”, the exhibition explores the symbolic heritage of the Île Seguin’s status as the historic home of the Renault factories. The selected artists and works explore the relationship between humans and machines, with a particular emphasis on the automobile.

In partnership with the Fonds Renault pour l’Art et la Culture, the exhibition foregrounds works from the historic collection of the car manufacturer by artists such as Vasarely, Dubuffet, Tinguely and Doisneau alongside contemporary works.

In line with its commitment to contemporary art, Large has also commissioned 17 new works for this opening exhibition by artists including Théo Mercier, Sara Sadik, Bianca Bondi, Clément Cogitore, Bertrand Lavier, Mohamed El Khatib, Oliver Beer, Bertille Bak, Thu Van Tran and Giulia Andreani. Unfolding through five chapters – “The Factory of My Thoughts”, “Social Bodies”, “Motor Forces”, “Objects of Desire”, “The Human Machine” – the exhibition interrogates both the industrial utopias of the 20th century and contemporary technological and social transformations.